but the way I see it, people should be nice because they are, not because it’s a calculated move on their part.
“Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“Maisie’s phone rings. The house rule is no phones at the table but we’ve made an exception for Maisie who keeps getting calls from neighbors asking for help, and we made an exception for Emily so that Benny can text her and tell her what time he’ll be back at the house, and so of course we extended the exception to Nell, because why would we let her sisters answer their phones at the table and make her turn hers off? Joe and I turn off our phones because everyone we want to talk to is here”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“putting on a show to ultimately wield power for control, and though this fact existed in his head as a truth, it was kept a kind of secret, which hurt to keep, which hurt to carry, like so many unspoken truths one privately knew one really didn’t want to know about oneself.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
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